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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2014
Nyansa, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Anand Srinivas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Barry, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abraham Ankumah, San Mateo, CA (US);
Daniel Kan, San Jose, CA (US);
Nyansa, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for observing and controlling a programmable network via higher layer attributes is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes one or more collectors and a remote network manager. The one or more collectors are configured to receive network traffic data from a plurality of network elements in the network. The remote network manager is configured to connect to the one or more collectors over the Internet via a network interface. The one or more collectors extract metadata from the network traffic data and send the metadata to the network manager.